Could it Happen Here?

ANDREW BLICK is professor of politics and contemporary history in the department of political economy, King’s College London, where he co-directs the Centre for British Democracy. He is the author of books including Electrified Democracy: The Internet and the United Kingdom Parliament in History and Beyond Magna Carta: A Constitution for the United Kingdom. Before entering academia, he worked in the UK Parliament and at Number 10 Downing Street. His PhD on the history of special advisers in UK government was supervised by Peter Hennessy. He is director of the Constitution Society, an educational charity for the promotion of knowledge of constitutional issues. His books for Haus include The Bonfire of the Decencies: Repairing and Restoring the British Constitution, co-authored with Peter Hennessy.

PETER HENNESSY is Attlee professor of contemporary British history at Queen Mary University of London. He is the author of several books including a postwar trilogy (Never Again: Britain 1945–51; Having It So Good: Britain in the Fifties; Winds of Change: Britain in the Early Sixties). His most recent work is On the Back of an Envelope: A Life in Writing. He is a fellow of the British Academy and an honorary fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge. He sits in the House of Lords as an independent crossbench peer.